26′ Music by Philip Glass. Choreographed by Jerome Robbins. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers 2(pic).2.2.2tsx.2 2.2.1+btbn.1 perc pf.syn str Choroegrapher Jerome Robbins mashes concepts from postmodern dance into the traditional ballet vocabulary, infusing the work with a distinctly urban energy. The reoccuring rhythms, continuous momentum, and endlessly shifting patterns of the ensemble combine to create a physical architecture for Glass’s…
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Music for Mud
Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Mabou Mines, New York, NY February 23, 2020. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis.
Drowning
An opera by Philip Glass. Based on the play by Maria Irene Fornes. Counter tenor, Tenor, Baritone, Harp, Keyboard Days and Nights Festival, October 2019. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. Drowning follows a man who falls in love with a woman in a photograph and drowns in grief, and was written alongside Mud.
King Lear Overture
Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic. 4(2:pic).2+ca.0.2/4.0+3ctpt.2+btbn.1/timp.perc/pf.cel.2hp/str New York City, NY, New York Philharmonic, conductor Jaap van Zweden. King Lear Overture at Wise Music Classical View here.
Piano Sonata
Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers Piano Festival Ruhr, 2019. Piano: Maki Namekawa. The biggest thing with new music is how to realize it. It’s an issue of how to write it down but it’s also about how to actually play it. – Philip Glass In late-June 2019 Glass discussed his Piano Sonata, and his relationship to…
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Piano Quintet No. 1 “Annunciation”
Music by Philip Glass. Commissioned by the Pearle Francis Finigan Foundation, Mike and Amber Kutayli, Rhonda Seacrest, and the Hixson Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Piano, Violin x 2, Viola, Cello October 3, 2019 Kimball Hall, Lincoln, Nebraska, Chiara String Quartet, pianist Paul Barnes. Piano Quintet at Wise…
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Quartet Satz
Music by Philip Glass. Commissioned by Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Published by Kronos: Fifty for the Future Project. 2x Violin, Viola, Cello Kronos – Nova Scotia, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 1/17/2018. Quartet Satz at Kronos Quartet
Whistleblower
Music by Philip Glass. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. Days and Nights Festival, October 2014 (work in progress); City Winery NYC, May 2016 (completion). “Whistleblower” was inspired by the confrontation between Edward Snowden and the US Government, but in fact the main character in the piece is Allen Ginsberg, and the FBI.
Perpetulum
20′ Music by Philip Glass. Commissioned for Third Coast Percussion with lead support from the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation. Published by Dunvagen Music Publishers. November 9th, 2018 – Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL; Third Coast Percussion The work was co-commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting for Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, San Francisco Performances, Town…
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JANE
60′ Music by Philip Glass. Published by National Geographic Society. large orchestra JANE is a 2017 American biographical documentary film directed and written by Brett Morgen about primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist Jane Goodall. The film had its world premiere at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival at Winter Garden Theatre on September 10, 2017. The film was also screened with…
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